Cuba

Cuba is a pretty easy place to eat Gluten Free Most people who’ve been to Cuba seem to complain about the food: lack of variety, lack of taste & lack of availability, understandable problems considering the very difficult years due to the trade embargo, but ZZ & I have been

#32 Casa Cusy, Cayo Jutias, Cuba Cayo Jutias is one of my favourite beaches in Cuba, its an island in a natural park with no buildings except a couple of wooden beach bar huts, you need to take a taxi (20 CUC return) over the causeway from the nearest village,

Bed #31 Casa Carlyn y Mayra, Viñales, Cuba Viñales is a rural village with strange mountains that poke out of the ground like rock pillars, they are full of caves with stalactites & stalagmites. The flat countryside is where they grow all the tobacco for Cuban cigars, we went on

When we were in the Valle del Silencio in Viñales we went on a horse back excursion to visit the tabacco plantations and the caves inside the “Mogotes” mountains. Our guide was called Jose and it was just 4 of us on the ride, Jose, Mama, Estelle & I. My

4 Weeks in Cuba – What did we spend ? WooHoo our expenses are coming down at last !!! $4,000 this month which is significantly less than the last 3 months ! Monthly Expenses (Sept 2015 – Dec 2015): How did we spend those $4,000 ? Accommodation really made a difference

Bed #30 Casa Belkis, Santiago, Cuba Casa Belkis in Santiago was my favourite casa in Cuba because I made a really nice friend, his name is Leo and he is 8 too. He lives opposite, we were staying in his Aunts house. We stayed for 6 nights and every day

Bed #29 Casa Nilson, Las Terrazas, Baracoa, Cuba In Baracoa we stayed at Las Terrazas, another place from Lonely Planet, Our room was big with 2 double beds but only 1 had sheets on it so Mama & I had to share. The house was cool but the decoration was

Baracoa is a difficult to get to coastal town on the North Eastern end of Cuba, above Santiago. It was one of Christopher Columbus first discoveries and has been left pretty much ignored by the Cubans for centuries because of its complicated access behind the mountains. Its a cobblestoned, colonial